How to make money from student accommodation

Most people associatebuy-to-let investment with the purchase of one to two-bedroom flats and trying to make single figure returns on the residential rental market. However savvy investors now associate UK property investment with the rapidly emerging student accommodation sector which is providing extremely healthy returns.

UK student accommodation has thrived over the past two years, rapidly outpacing the UK’s conventional property market. Its fast growth and investment strength has been so prolific that in January 2012 The Times ranked student accommodation as the top asset class in the UK’s property market.